What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias

Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen, Seiichi Yamamoto


Abstract
We demonstrate a bilingual robot application, WikiTalk, that can talk fluently in both English and Japanese about almost any topic using information from English and Japanese Wikipedias. The English version of the system has been demonstrated previously, but we now present a live demo with a Nao robot that speaks English and Japanese and switches language on request. The robot supports the verbal interaction with face-tracking, nodding and communicative gesturing. One of the key features of the WikiTalk system is that the robot can switch from the current topic to related topics during the interaction in order to navigate around Wikipedia following the user’s individual interests.
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C16-2025
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hideo Watanabe
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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116–120
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Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen, and Seiichi Yamamoto. 2016. What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 116–120, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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What topic do you want to hear about? A bilingual talking robot using English and Japanese Wikipedias (Wilcock et al., COLING 2016)
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